What's behind this name trend?

[Phizzytails]

What's behind the trend of calling girls something-May? With a hyphen? In the past few weeks alone at my work I've come across children called:

Chloe-May
Eva-May
Casey-May
Ava-Mae
Poppy-May
Amber-May

Also why never just 'May?' I don't think I've ever come across any young people or kids called just 'May.'

Even worse when it's spelt Mae 🤦‍♀️

Similar here. DD born 2004 with middle name May. My Grandma, who would now be about 100, also has May as her middle name.

Fashion's just circulate and cycle. There's all sorts of double barrelled first names on our school altho mostly the kids drop the post hyphen name so Lola-Rose is just Lola, Evie-May is just Evie, Darcie-Mae is just Darcie. There's someone with something like Elizabeth-Amanda (basically two long fairly traditional names) and I always wonder if hers gets shorted
I presume like any trend it's because the parents like it. Seems a reasonable explanation.

When I was at school in the 80s there were loads of Julie-Anns, Ann-Maries, Emma-Louises, Sally-Anns, etc. Suranne Jones is a similar vintage to me and her stage name comes from her given name of Sarah-Anne, another popular one when I was younger.

When DD was at primary school 15 years ago-ish there were Ellie-Maes, Ella-Graces, Gracie-Mays and so on. Hyphenated Christian names are nothing new.

May is a lovely name!

My dd 18 has May as a middle name named after my grandma.There were 2 who had May as a first name in her year.
Using the name Rae seemed more popular in her year there was a Millie - Rae / Hannah - Rae and a Georgia - Rae

I think if you pick an unusual name, you should be able to copyright it, so nobody within say 10 miles can use it. Just saying!

Even the one 'May' I know it's actually her middle name.

They used to call the hyphenated names 'common' on here. I don't know if that still happens and if they have the same image.

DS was born in 1992. The girls name we had chosen was Alice May so perhaps I would have been a bit of a trendsetter. 😁

Everyone called Clare always had the middle name Louise too. Definitely a 70s thing as there were 4 in my class at junior school.

Lily-Rose Depp is 24

Rose, May and Grace are the modern Louise, Elizabeth and Marie.

I'm a - May and I'm nearly 26! So I think it's always been a trend.

When I was at school it was Kelly-Ann, Julie-Ann, Claire-Louise.

I don't mind May, but where did Mae come from?

Oh and how could I forget Sarah-Jane!

I worked with a man who made the baffling choice to admit that his forename wasn't John, but John-Edward.

Jedward had to leave eventually.

I know a May who's about 15 now.

I knew a Maureen-Helen once,which always struck me a strange combination of names.
My friend in southern USA has a grandaughter Avery-Jo

Double first or hyphenated names has been a 'trend' in recent few centuries and never really gone away, though, of course, the taste for particular names comes and goes. It's often been described as a lower class trend (except in France, where I've found the opposite).

If anyone remembers the old rhyme:

"Do not think that we resemble
Betsy Jane or Mary Ann,
Women born in lowly cottage,
Bred for broom or frying-pan."